Fresh off his strange foray into international diplomacy neo-con style, where he sent a letter to Iranian leadership warning that a US deal with Iran would not be honored by the United States, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) has again dipped his Arkansan toes into the...
Month: April 2015
Jade Helm: A Military Takeover?
by harley | Apr 30, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Why are US special forces holding a massive exercise in the US southwest this summer? Is it something civil libertarians should be worried about? The Texas governor announced that the Texas State Guard would be monitoring US military moves in Texas. Was it a smart...
General Dempsey Errs by Telling The Truth, But Quickly Recants
by Michael Scheuer | Apr 29, 2015 | Featured Articles
During his term as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey has shown a decided inability to differentiate between truth and falsehood when talking to Americans and their congressional representatives, more often than not erring on the side of the...
Andrew Napolitano on Unjustifiable Killings of Americans in Baltimore and Overseas
by Adam Dick | Apr 29, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
You can hear a high level of outrage in the voice of Judge Andrew Napolitano when he discusses on the Alan Colmes Show on Tuesday the death of an American in police custody in Baltimore, Maryland and the use of United States drones to kill three more Americans...
Who's Starving Yemen's Children?
by harley | Apr 29, 2015 | The Liberty Report
This week Saudi Arabia bombed an airfield in Yemen to prevent an Iranian aid plane from landing. Yemen's population is suffering severe food and water shortages after five weeks of US-backed Saudi bombing. As Ron Paul says in his latest Liberty Report below, this is...
A Return to the Peace Party
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Apr 28, 2015 | Featured Articles
A few weeks ago, I spoke to about 200 people at the famous Willard Hotel in Washington in a program put on by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. I had been told that this was a group of CEOs and owners of major companies in Southern California, obviously a very...
Unending War on Terror
by Philip Giraldi | Apr 28, 2015 | Featured Articles
The admission by the White House that two western hostages were killed by an errant drone strike in Pakistan serves as only an ugly little footnote to what has been nearly fifteen years of undeclared war waged by Washington against a large part of the world. The New...
George W. Bush: Don’t Talk to Iran!
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 28, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Former President George W. Bush's foreign and military legacy is not one resplendent with great victories. He and his advisors -- with the help of an obedient media -- lied the US into a war on Iraq where the mission was claimed accomplished before the real war had...
Crisis, What Crisis?—The al-Qaeda Takeover of Syria
by Neil Clark | Apr 27, 2015 | Featured Articles
This weekend it was reported that al-Qaeda affiliated rebels were “almost completely in control” of the last major government held city in the Idlib province in northern Syria. This is really big news as it means that the Syrian government’s coastal heartlands...
Ron Paul: End the Fed that Funds Perpetual War and Puts War Profiteers on the Gravy Train
by Adam Dick | Apr 27, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Speaking April 11 in Austin at the University of Texas, former presidential candidate and United States House of Representatives member Ron Paul stressed the importance of ending the Federal Reserve. In particular, Paul explains how the Fed allows the US to pursue...
Ron Paul: Why Are US Special Forces in 81 Countries?
by harley | Apr 27, 2015 | The Liberty Report
US special operations forces are operating in 81 countries according to the Wall Street Journal. Their budget has increased five-fold since 2001 and their personnel have doubled. They operate in secret, most often without Congressional oversight or even knowledge. Is...

The Real War on the Middle Class
by Ron Paul | Apr 26, 2015 | Featured Articles
One of the great ironies of American politics is that most politicians who talk about helping the middle class support policies that, by expanding the welfare-warfare state, are harmful to middle-class Americans. Eliminating the welfare-warfare state would benefit...
Morsi Jailed: Another Mission Accomplished
by harley | Apr 26, 2015 | The Liberty Report
In 2011 the US backed the "Arab Spring" which overthrew military dictator Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, in the name of democracy. But US officials soon soured on the democratically-elected Muhammad Morsi so they supported a military dictator who overthrew him, al-Sisi. Now...
Kansas One-Ups Texas by Adopting Concealed Carry without Classes, Fees, or a Surveillance Database
by Adam Dick | Apr 24, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Many people perceive Texas as a bastion of rugged individualism and minimal government. Kansas not so much so. This month both states’ governments are moving toward implementing laws removing some restrictions on people carrying handguns. Yet only Kansas is doing so...
US Funded Industrial Park in Afghanistan Found With Only One Business and No Electricity . . . And Missing Records
by Jonathan Turley | Apr 24, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
We have yet another example of how we are wasting billions of dollars in Afghanistan where a combination of incompetence and corruption continues to drain the US treasury. This week, SIGAR released two reports showing how, an inspection of the $7.8 million Shorandam...
Libya Migrant Crisis: Whose Fault?
by harley | Apr 24, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Thousands are desperate to escape from a Libya that is increasingly in the hands of ISIS and other murderous gangs. This past week more than a thousand drowned in the Mediterranean on rickety boats. The mainstream media will never report the real cause of this mass...
First They Came for the Anti-Vaxxers
by Bretigne Shaffer | Apr 23, 2015 | Featured Articles
Earlier this year I spent a few days at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center with my daughter who was having an EEG done. On our way home, I learned that there had been an outbreak of an antibiotic-resistant bacteria while we were there, that it had infected seven...
The Drug War and the Prison-Industrial Complex
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 23, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Why does the US have the largest prison population in the entire world? One reason is the massive incentives to send Americans to the corporatist-run prison-industrial complex. The Ron Paul Liberty Report with Ron Paul and co-host Daniel McAdams of RPI welcomes...
Are We Really Winning Against ISIS?
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 23, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
When President Obama welcomed Iraqi prime minister Abadi to Washington last week he glowed with optimism over the US fight against ISIS. The US is making "serious progress" against ISIS, he said, and "what is clear is that we will be successful."RPI Director Daniel...
Houthi Arms Bonanza Came From Saleh, Not Iran
by Gareth Porter | Apr 23, 2015 | Featured Articles
As the Saudi bombing campaign against Houthi targets in Yemen continues, notwithstanding a temporary pause, the corporate media narrative about the conflict in Yemen is organised decisively around the idea that it is a proxy war between Iran on one side and the Saudis...
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